Do you ever wonder what kind of society we are becoming?
I often find myself staring up at the stars and realising just how alone we are on this planet.
If we are ever in serious trouble as a planet, then our neighbours are a very long way off and no one is coming to save us!
Who is it we need saving from? Oh my goodness, isn't it awful that our biggest threat is from each other.
Now of course i don't mean that individually we are are going to be attacking the next individual, but what when greed takes over and groups of individuals want the lions share and the rest of us become pawns in their game.
The influence of big corporations over the individual is frightening.
The influence of the media over our thinking is terrifying.
I have heard too many times this week, views which have no place in a grown up society and are echoes of pre 1939.
Its odd that in a world where we have so much access to knowledge and perhaps are the best travelled we have ever been, that some still are happy to have their views formed by the press!
2013 and we are still exploiting nations, that some within those nations are happy to sup with the devil and exploit their own countrymen for individual greed rather than look to the bigger picture and decide that if they need to sell their countries resources, make it a sellers market and create the wealth that will benefit everyone.
The racist views that are banded about right now are poison to the ears. There is a view that here in the UK we are becoming over run!! well yesterday i took a walk and met 4 people on that walk and a small herd of alpacas! If i had taken the same walk in Hong Kong or Taiwan, etc, I think i might have met a good few more.
I was told this week that we have children living in poverty in the UK.
I don't see the rubbish mounds of South America with children looking for food and things to sell in this country.
Our perspective of poverty and over crowded is somewhat different to that where true poverty exists.
Where true poverty exists, we in the west have helped to create it!
Every child here has a school place, they have the chance of education to get them out of poverty, support services to help them.
How come we have so much access to life around the world and yet we fail to compare our lives with the same yard stick.
We have people in difficult living conditions compared to others in the same country, but compare those to other parts of the world and the picture looks different.
It is sheer accident of birth where we are born and what our experience is, yet the idea that a country belongs to 'us' is really absurd. We are all on the same planet and a very long way from our neighbours, if we have any at all.
We need big picture thinking and not the narrow minded views that play right in the hands of those that would like to see us at each others throats and exploiting each other over for a quick buck!
2013 - surely time to grow up as a world nation.
I don't want to hear the 'Daily Mail' rhetoric. The view that soon we will be over run and English will not be the first language in the UK - who said it had to be? What are these invisible barriers we put up.
Who said French had to be the first language in France.
Man made rules - made by which man? Nature has it right, we get it badly wrong.
We are and should be a diverse world with a moving population. I think no matter who you are or where you are as long as you are an active contributing member of the global society and working from a selfless perspective we might be able to raise the vibration of us all and start to realise how connected we are and that we do only have each other.
7 billion people with a link, is better than 7 billion people set against each other.
That might suit those that make money out of conflict or those that wish to take control, but is that the world you want to live in.
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